The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 20, sentence 11
This was followed by a voice, hoarse as that of a bull, which cried:
Who acts: voice, bull · What happens: follow, cry · To what, where: This
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (voice, bull), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 followed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 followed | aux:pass |
| 3 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 voice | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 voice | det |
| 6 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 followed | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 hoarse | punct |
| 8 | hoarse | hoarse | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 voice | amod |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 that | case |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 hoarse | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 bull | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 bull | det |
| 13 | bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 that | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 cried | punct |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 cried | nsubj |
| 16 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 bull | acl:relcl |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | past · passive | a voice | This | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | a bull | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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